On May 24, Peng Yujian, a 55-year-old paraglider, was already roughly 10,000 feet (3,000 meters) above sea level, testing the ...

THEY HAVEN’T SHOT IT DOWN FOR FEAR OF FALLING DEGREE ... said the balloon was flying at an altitude of about 60,000 feet, was maneuverable and had changed course. Discovery of the balloon ...

The balloon was flying at more than 60,000 feet in the air as it crossed South ... The balloon was ultimately shot down over the Atlantic Ocean that afternoon at an altitude of just over 12 ...

Software engineer and storm chaser Brian Branch captured photographs of the balloon high above western North Carolina just hours before it was shot down ... of about 60,000 feet (18,600 meters).

A U.S. fighter jet shot down the balloon off the coast of ... show the wreckage remarkably intact given its fall from 60,000 feet. The debris field is about seven miles wide and the debris is ...

The Biden administration is well within its authority to shoot down the Chinese spy balloon that floated over Alaska and was spotted over Montana late this week, according to national security and ...

One challenge was the balloon was flying at about 60,000 feet, an altitude that everyday aircraft — including some of the U.S. fighter inventory — could not reach. These very high altitudes ...